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The collection consists of a letters written on the question of women's education. Writers include John Hullah, Emily Davis, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Rev. F. D. Maurice, Mrs Grote, Helen Taylor, Mr W Cowper, Eliza Orme, Sir Edward Ryan, Professor J R Seeley, Frances Martin, Helen Gladstone, Anne Clough, Miss C F Gordon-Cumming, Prof Morley, Mr Henry Sidgwick, Mrs Eleanor Sidgwick, Elizabeth Wordsworth, Miss Helen Stoehr, Frances Power Cobbe, Lady Stanley of Alderley, Lady Frances Balfour, Sarah Lyttleton, Gertrude M Wilson, Maria Grey, Miss C L Maynard, Emma Cons, Dr Sophie Bryant, Dr Maria Montessori, Archbishop of Canterbury, Elizabeth Haldane, Bertha Johnson, Mr H A L Fisher, Margaret McMillan, Dame Emmeline Tanner and Ethel Strudwick.

The archive consists of the records of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society (FMCES): Annual reports: May-Oct 1862, Nov 1862-Jul 1872, Jan 1880-Dec 1882, Jan 1883-Dec 1885; correspondence (in the form of letter-books); pamphlets.

The archive consists of:

• Administrative papers

• Minutes of Annual General Meetings

• Conference papers

• Minutes of Executive Committee Meetings

• Papers concerning related national and international organisations

• Papers relating to publications

• Papers relating to Women's Studies Courses in the UK and the Research Assessment Exercise

Please note: Women's Studies Network Newsletters / FWSA Newsletters were removed. Consult The Women's Library Printed Collections Catalogue periodicals for copies

Abbreviations used in collection:

ALSISS - Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences

AOIFE - Association of Institutions of Feminist Education

ENWS - European Network for Women's Studies

ESRC - Economic and Social Research Council

NAWO - National Alliance of Women's Organisations

QAA - Quality Assurance Association

RAE - Research Assessment Exercise

WISE - Women's International Studies Europe

WHEN - Women in High Education Network

WSN - Women's Studies Network

Letter from Joseph Deacon Fetch of Cambridge [District Poor Law] Union, Cambridge to [Edward Brent] Prest, [auditor for the Union], 6 Jul 1870. Asking for an opinion on the legality, if they appeared in the accounts of the [Board] of Guardians, of pecuniary awards made for the apprehension of men that had abandoned their families. 'At the present time there are not less than seven men in the Borough Gaol convicted as Rogues & Vagabonds for deserting their families'.

Written in another hand and signed by Fetch.

Letters from Cyrus West Field of Buckingham Palace Hotel, Buckingham Gate. (1) To E W Cooke acknowledging an invitation to the anniversary dinner of the Royal Academy and an invitation from the Athenaeum Club, 9 Apr 1873. (2) To J W Chesson of 5 Tite Street, Chelsea, London agreeing that Chess was 'right in asking the Associated people ... [for] a verbatim report of the Duke of Argyll's speech', also accepting an invitation to breakfast on Saturday, 7 Jul 1885.

Both items are written in another hand and signed by Field.

Letter from William Fiennes to [John] Swynfen [MP] of St Anne's Lane, Westminster, 29 May 1648. 'I have sent you a narrative of the former proceedinges about the castle of Banbury (my house) ... The gentlemen have spoken with me, and my cousin Knightly will report this to the House [of Commons] ... Excuse me for putting you to this trouble I assure my selfe the House will not misuse me if rightly informed, wch that they may be I desyre yo favour with some other of my frendes ... Lett me be lett alone to inioye [enjoy] mine owne and I am satisfyed. Sr I shall remayne Your affectionate frend to serve you'.

Autograph, with signature.

Comprising photocopies of seven letters to Warwick Gould from H.P.R.Finberg regarding the latter's translation of W.B.Yeats' 'Axel' (July 1971 - February 1972); Photocopy of H.P.R.Finberg's obituary in The Times with a correction letter by Warwick Gould regarding the obituary (November 1974).

Letter from John Fisher of Weymouth to Patrick Colquhoun, LLD, 18 Sep 1816. Regarding plans for the provision of a female penitentiary and lock hospital [i.e. hospital for treating sexually-transmitted infections] in Bath; accompanying a copy of the institution's prospectus.

Autograph, with signature.

Papers of William J Fishman (b 1921), including: photographs of East End walks by Fishman, locations and street scenes in the East End of London, 1922-1980s; papers, press cuttings and correspondence regarding the Battle of Cable Street, 19 Princelet Street and East End history, 1995-2006.

Notebooks, 1893-[1923], relating to the work of the College Bedell, Royal College of Physicians.

Correspondence of the Follow-up Survey Sub-committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Population Investigation Committee (PIC) and the Institute of Child Health (University of London), 1949-1952, with some agenda and minutes of the Follow-up Survey Sub-Committee. Also includes applications to the Nuffield Foundation, survey forms and summaries of survey data.

Draft conference papers and publications on the art connoisseur and author, Richard Ford (1796-1858).

Administrative records, Chaplaincy records, financial records and patient records.

Letters from Cecil Scott Forester of Longton Avenue, London, SE26, to G F Troup Horne, 3 Dec 1932 - 4 Jul 1933. Mainly relating to Forester's play 'U97' which Troup Horne produced at Birkbeck College in February 1933.

All letters autograph, with signatures.

The Forth Bridge Railway Company: Letter to Challinor and Company, solicitors, 1899; interest warrants, 1913-1927.

Reports, conference papers on library classification, thesauri, planning of library services, 1952-[1974]; National Pahlavi Library project papers, reports, [1975]-1978; teaching notes on librarianship, 1964; correspondence, [1940-1991].

Three rent books, suspected to be from Stepney Green Court, Stepney Green, and Mocatto House, Whitechapel, owned by the Four Per Cent Industrial Dwellings Company, listing occupier, occupation and rent paid (1921-1947).

Letter from William Warde Fowler of Kingham, Chipping Norton, [Oxfordshire] to [Miss Palgrave (one of Sir Reginald F D Palgrave's daughters)], 9 Nov 1916. Thanking her for a letter about a book recently published by him [?Essays in brief for war time].

Written in another hand and signed by Fowler.

Fowre Sermons containing the life & Actes of the moste famous virgine St. Katherine of Sienna written by the Reverend Fa: Lewes de Granada. Pencilled note on the fly-leaf suggesting that this is a translation by Francis Meres, 1565-1647.

Letters relating to illness and death of Charles James Fox and other members of the Fox Family, 1806-1819.

Invoices, reviews and accounts including manuscript reviews by Herbert Foxwell of works by the historian William Arthur Shaw; details of Foxwell's monthly expenditure on books, sorted by location; invoices from bookshops, [1880-1925].

The archive consists of photocopies of letters sent to Fraenkel by Pankhurst mainly concerned with an exhibition of the latter's paintings which Elsa organised and which was held in London in 1959. Includes a pastel drawing of Pankhurst by Fraenkel (c.1957).

'Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queene Elizabeth her tymes and favorites' by Sir Robert Naunton. An autograph letter accompanying it, from T.R. Maynard, 1845, suggests that this is the original MS. It was first published, posthumously, in 1641. Internal evidence points to c. 1630 as the date of composition.

Fragmented manuscript of The Vision of Piers Plowman by William Langland. Some decoration can be seen on the partial first pages and the first letter of each passus is raised in gold with coloured inks. Some characters appear in red or blue throughout the text and words and paraphrases in Latin are in red.

Papers of Francis Bacon Society comprise a letter from Alfred Dodd to Mrs Bayley regarding his Francis Bacon scholarship, 1938.

Letter from Frank Tenney of the American Academy in Rome, Porta S Pancarzio, Rome (29), Italy to Sir Herbert Warren, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1 Nov 1922. Thanking him for his generous letter, occasioned by the publication of and commenting on Frank's Vergil: a biography (1922). 'I have now settled down for a few months at the American Academy and shall have time to think about Vergil and repent the too hasty publication of that book'. Referring to 'our friend, Professor [W P] Mustard' [Professor of Latin at Johns Hopkins University and Frank's colleague], who drew his attention to Warren's Essays of Poetry and the Poets (1909).

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Richard Frankland, Overseer of the Poor, of Hawes, [North Riding of Yorkshire] to the Overseer of the Poor in Darlington. Stating the cost of maintaining Isabella Scafe for 20 weeks at 3s per week and Elizabeth Harrison for 23 weeks as 1s 6d per week; asking for an extra shilling per weeks for Isabella, who 'still continues very poorly and is confined too [sic] her bed ... she has a very bad cough and is not likely for getting better ... please send the money as soon as possible'.

Autograph, with signature. A note written in another hand beside the figure of £4 14s 6d reads 'Amt sent p[er] T. Craddock' (18 October 1810).

The archive consists of notes for speeches, correspondence, press cuttings, Women's Social and Political Union papers, family records including photographs and objects, papers related to the arrest and imprisonment of both Franklin and Duval.

Miscellaneous handbills, newsletters, typescripts and other ephermera, concerning international movements, personalities and campaigns connected with anarchism, socialism, the peace movement and the history of anarchism, collected by bookshop and publishers Freedom Press (1910 - 1989).

Letter from Sir C W Fremantle of the Royal Mint to Mr [Frederick] Hendricks, 11 Dec 1878. Returning the proof sheets of Hendricks's deposition at the Enquête sur la Question Monétaire.

Autograph, with signature.

French revolutionary pamphlets collection comprises pamphlets by the Interior Ministry, the Police Ministry and other official bodies in the French republic. Pamphlet by the Chief of Police Sotin warns citizens that the enemies of the revolution are regrouping (c1794). A pamphlet of 1795 also urges vigilance.

Various photographs of Harold Frost taken throughout his life, c 1914-1970; including of Frost in military uniform during the First World War (n.d.); group photo of Boy Scout troop at the annual London Jamboree, 30 Jul 1920; Boy Scout troop taken in Wembley, Middlesex, 1924; Frost in Boy Scout leader uniform taken at Redhill, c1925; Frost sitting in conversation with Reg Lowe in France. 1920; full length photograph of Frost in doorway with medium 'Patty', c1925; head and shoulders photograph of Frost, c1935; twelve head and shoulders portraits of Frost from different angles, c1935; Frost with friends on swinging garden seat in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex (n.d.); altar of church [possibly St Nicholas] decorated for Harvest Festival, Chignall Smealey, Essex 1942; Frost's house while staying in Dacca (n.d.) (2 copies); Frost sitting with locals in Dacca (n.d.); Frost sitting in a local wagon in Dacca (n.d.); Frost's dog 'Samantha' on beach at Wittering, Sussex (n.d.); studio photograph of Frost seated with book, friend standing, c1965; full length photograph of Frost in verger robes at the altar of St Mary's Church, Banbury, c1970; colour photograph of 'Meditation Lane', Chignal Smealey, Chelmsford, Essex (n.d.).

Consists of 4 hard-bound scrapbooks with some handwritten notes and typescript notes of sittings with mediums of various circles, for example Mark's Tey circle in Essex, 1928-1967. Some letters and press cuttings are enclosed.

A Professional papers relating to Fry's work as a general practitioner in Beckenham, Kent, 1948-91, where he undertook his extensive research into common diseases, including his diaries, accounts, patient records, administrative notes and statistics.

B Papers relating to Fry's role within the Royal College of General Practitioners, 1961-91, including publications about the College and draft papers relating to the Research Committee and the Board of Censors.

C-D Publications and papers by Fry and other authors on various [C] clinical and [D]non-clinical research subjects, arranged by topic, 1946-93

E Material relating to his other commitments at the World Health Organization (WHO), General Medical Council (GMC), the Keppel Club of Society of Social Medicine, and the Army. His editorial work for various journals and organisations like the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA), and lectures notes and publications relating to his overseas trips, and any related correspondence, 1953-94

F Biographic material relating to the more personal side of Fry's life, including correspondence relating to the depositing of his papers, 1973-95.

The archive consists of 4 letters from the Sunday Pictorial and a diploma signed by Lord Woolton, dated 1 Nov 1941, all re wartime rationing. Also typescript of Mrs Fyffe's account of a week's routine in feeding her household of two adults and five children, with a summary of housekeeping expenditure for a week in Sep 1941, and details of each day's meals during that week.

Papers of historian and teacher Jim Fyrth (1918-2010), including: lecture notes on various political topics, 1964-1984; press cuttings, reviews and correspondence regarding Fyrth's various publications, particularly 'The Signal was Spain' and 'An Indian Landscape', 1960-1994; research materials on peace movements, the 1930s, CND, William Morris, fascism and anti-fascism, 1930-1989; correspondence with other historians and activists, and press cuttings, reviews and papers regarding their work, 1936-2010.

Letter from Alexander Galloway of West Street, [London] to Mr Applegarth, Stamford Street [recipient's name and address added in a different hand], 9 Jul 1824. He has received the letter about a press to mark Bath paper. Stating that he will engrave the seal to any design. The japanned press would cost £8 10s, the bright one £9, independent of the die.

Autograph, with signature.

Letter from Francis Galton of 42 Rutland Gate, London to [Charles S] Myers, 23 Jun 1903. Discussing Myers's project for a new 'Psychological Journal'.

Autograph, with signature.

Papers of Caroline Selena Ganley, 1916-1966, including typescript autobiography, c1955; miscellaneous papers concerning her career and work, including desk diary and miscellaneous papers and correspondence, 1916-1966.

The papers of Garrick Club comprise one volume containing playbills for the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden between 28 September 1825 and 23 June 1826 with occasional notices of cast changes.

Papers of Jack Gaster (1907-2007), including: quarter-inch tape reels featuring music recordings by Rufus John and speeches by George Lansbury, Ramsay MacDonald, Willie Gallacher, James Maxton, etc., n.d.; papers, press cuttings and notes relating to social issues in London and Gaster's service on the London County Council, 1946-1961; press cuttings and miscellaneous notes regarding China, Poland, Guiana, Communism and international affairs, 1953-1982; selection of Communist and peace badges, n.d.; metal paper stamp of the British Soviet Friendly Houses Limited, n.d.; festschrift for Jack Gaster on his 95th birthday and order for memorial service, 2002-2007.

Papers of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (1978-2005), including: accounts and financial records, 1980-2005; chair and annual reports, 1979-2007; annual general meeting minutes and papers, 1980-1997; nomination forms, membership and attendance records, 1985-1996; legislative submissions, 1980-2001; papers, press cuttings and other material regarding various GALHA campaigns concerning "cures" for homosexuality, Coventry County Council and their ban on a Campaign for Homosexual Equality meeting, the armed forces, Section 28 and the age of consent, 1978-2000; press releases, 1990-1993; papers deposited by founder members George Broadhead and Jim Herrick including papers, journals, photographs and other material, 1979-1995.

Letter from N Geary of Fareham, [Hampshire] to Mr Gunner, Waltham, Hampshire, 14 Jan 1815. Asking Gunner to remind the magistrates of the Droxford Bench that they were to inspect the public roads over the Forest of Bere, which Geary had made 'remarkably good'; but since 'the whole of the public money is expended, and the roads are getting bad', he asks the magistrates either to discharge him, or give 'assistance and support without which it will be impossible for me to proceed without much injury to the parishes, and disgrace to myself ...'.

Autograph, with signature. Some pencilled queries in another hand appear on the dorse, e.g. 'Does it lega[ll]y come before us?'

2 letters from Leon Maxwell Gellert of Art in Australia Ltd, 24 Bond Street, Sydney to Mrs Cowdroy [possibly wife of Victor Cowdroy], [1917]. (1) Comprising purely the greeting, etc, and the word 'Brutus!'. (2) Reminding her about illustrations.

Ephemera for candidates in the 2010 General Election, local council elections and local mayoral elections, including the following constiuencies:

• Hackney South and Shoreditch

• Leyton and Wanstead

• Holborn and St Pancras

• Lewisham East

• Poplar and Limehouse

• Streatham

• Hackney North and Stoke Newington

• Cities of London and Westminster

• Hammersmith

• Hackney, Leabridge Ward

• Streatham Hill Ward

• Hackney

• St Katherine's & Wapping

• Blackheath

• Holborn and St Pancras

• Westminster

• Hackney Wick

Papers of the General Federation of Trade Unions, (1805-2011). Includes: Union Files including National Association of Card, Loughborough Dyers and Scourers Association, Pressed Glassmakers’ Society and other skilled glassmakers unions, Hinckley and District Trimmers’ Union, Derby Trimmers, Dyers and Auxiliary Workers’ Association, Waterproof Garment Workers’ Trade Union, Amalgamated Society of Cricket Ball Makers, London Glass Workers’ Trade Society, Amalgamated Textile Warehousemen, Amalgamated Moulders and Kindred Industries Union, London Glass Workers’ Trade Society, National Flint Glass Makers’ Society, Hinckley and District Hosiery Warehousemen/Menders Association, London Mill Sawyers and Woodworking Machinists Trade Society, Card Setting Machine Tenters’ Society, Card Dressers’ Society, Northern Carpet Trades Union, National Union of Lock and Metal Workers, Arbroath Mill, Factory and Bleachfield Workers’ Union, Associated Metal Workers and Allied Trades, Process and General Workers’ Union, Amalgamated Machine, Engine and Iron Grinders’ and Glaziers’ Society.

Also the Amalgamated Moulders and Kindred Industries’ Trade Union, London Glass Bottle Workers’ Trade Society, Amalgamated Springworkers Union and Allied Trades, Print Block, Roller and Stamp Cutters’ Society, Machine, Engine and Iron Grinders’ and Glazers’ Society, Hinckley and District Hosiery Warehousemen’s Association, Leicester and Leicestershire Hosiery Trimmers and Auxiliary Association, South Durham and North Yorkshire Saltmakers’ Association/West of Scotland Sheet Metal Workers, Braziers and Gas Fitters/Derbyshire United Enginemen, Firemen and Motormen’s Association, Amalgamated Weavers’ Association, Pen and Pocket Blade Forgers’ and Smithers’ Protection Society, Chemical Workers’ Union, Midlands Glass Bevellers’ and Kindred Trades’ Society, Journeyman Felt Hatters and Allied Workers’ Union, Spindle and Flyer Makers Trade and Friendly Society, Rossendale Union of Boot, Shoe and Slipper Operatives, Scottish Union of Power-Loom Over-Lookers, Yorkshire Association of Power Loom Overlookers, Packing Case and General Woodworkers’ Society, National Union of Club Stewards, Power Loom Carpet Weavers’ and Textile Workers’ Association, Northern Carpet Trades’ Union, Amalgamated Society of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers, National Society of Brushmakers and General Workers, Midland Counties Federation of Hosiery Finishers, National Association of Licensed House Managers, Nottingham and District Dyers’ and Bleachers’ Association, Lancashire Box, Packing Case and General Woodworkers Society, Amalgamated Union of Asphalt Workers, Union of Jute, Flax and Kindred Textile Operatives, Leicester and Leicestershire Auxiliary Workers, General Union of Association of Loom Overlookers, National Union of Domestic Appliances and General Metal Workers, London Jewel Case Makers’ Trade Protection Society, National Society of Metal Mechanics, Associated Metalworkers’ Union, Rossendale Union of Boot, Shoe and Slipper Operatives, United Ladies’ Tailors Trade Union, Power Loom Carpet Weavers and Textile Workers’ Union, Amalgamated Association of Card, Blowing and Ring Room Operatives, Dundee and District, Calendar, Linoleum and Dye Workers’ Union, United Society of Engravers, Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners and Twiners, Cloth Pressers’ Society, Hosiery and Textile Dyers’ and Auxiliary Association.

Also the Cigarette Machine Operators’ Society, Manchester and District Caretakers’ Association, Amalgamated Society of Textile Workers and Kindred Trades, Amalgamated Society of Operative Lace Makers and Textile Workers, Amalgamated National Union of Quarry Workers and Sett Makers, National Union of Wallcoverings, Decorative and Allied Trades/Wallpaper Workers’ Union, Managers and Overlookers’ Society, National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, Lancashire Amalgamated Tape Sizers’, Yorkshire Society of Textile Craftsmen, Wall Paper Workers’ Union, Scottish Union of Power Loom Tenters, Ceramic and Allied Trades Union, National Society of Pottery Workers, National Tile, Faience and Mosaic Fixers’ Society, Leicester Hosiery Scourers and Bleachers Trade and Benefit Society, National Silk Workers’ Association, Society of Shuttlemakers, Amalgamated Society of Spring Makers, Tool Makers and Grinders, National Union of Stove, Grate and General Metal Workers, Amalgamated Moulders’ Union, Leicester and Leicestershire Trimmers and Auxiliary Association, National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades’ Association, Retail, Book, Stationary, and Allied Trades Employees’ Association, National Union of Hosiery Workers, National Union of Funeral Service Operatives, National Union of Furniture Trade Operatives, Chain Makers’ and Strikers’ Association, Leeds and District Warpdressers’, Twisters’ and Kindred Trades Association, General Union of Lancashire and Yorkshire Warp Dressers’ Associations, London Jewish Bakers’ Union, Screw, Nut, Bolt and Rivet Trade Society, and the Yorkshire Association of Power Loom Overlookers, 1901-1996; Minutes of the Management Committee and Sub-Committee, 1899-1983; Minutes of the Sub-Committee, 1900-1910; Minutes of the Pension Scheme Trustees, 1961-1991; Minutes of the Wages and Insurance Sub-Committee, 1974; Minutes of the Education Trust, 1977-2011; Minutes of the Co-ordinating sub-committee, 1981-1982; Minutes of committees, 1975-1983; Minutes of the Joint Board of the Parliamentary Committee of the TUC, GFTU and Labour Party, 1907-1913; Minutes of the War Emergency National Workers Committee, 1914-1918; Cash book, 1901-1980; General accounts, 1908-1998; Accounts of dispute and benefits claims, 1902-1933; Papers regarding wages and pensions, 1920-1989; Register of benefits, 1915-1933; Service charges, 1998-2004; Subscriptions ledger, 1908-1910; Contributions register and receipts, 1899-1969; Day book, 1971-1994; Rent collection, 1930-1940; Papers, accounts, deeds, lease and policy documents for Central House , Prince’s Road and Woburn buildings, 1824-1981; Submission to the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers Association, 1965; Report, strategy documents and statements, 1939-1990;; Paper regarding the rules of the Union, 1949-1956; Papers regarding students and education, 1983; Report on unemployment, 1977; Papers and correspondence regarding the relationships between the Trade Union Council and General Federation of Trade Unions, 1935-1942; Papers regarding the Multinational Project (Courtaulds Commission), 1974-1975; Papers regarding conferences and annual lectures, 1952-2000; Papers regarding the Royal Commission and the Cost of Living Enquiry, 1948-1965; Papers regarding the union representatives briefing, 1990-2002; Acts of Government, 1805-1898; Diaries of Leslie Hodgson, 1959-1974; Papers regarding ‘Federationist’ including subscriptions book and Scrapbook of articles, 1914-1919; Correspondence and ephemera concerning a meeting between P.Potts (General Secretary, GFTU) and the European Parliament Labour Group, 1982; Correspondence with George Bell, Leslie Hodgson, Alice Prochaska and various Union, 1935-1991; Correspondence regarding loans to the Government, the Federation and City Guild prizes, the Harbour Board, loans to Denton District Council, Flyde Water Board, loans to the Borough of Rochdale, Liverpool Mortgages, Co-operatives Wholesale Society bankers, Company Law Amendment Act, Sydney Whitehead case, industrial dust disease, dispute between Midland Counties Trade Federation and the National Union of Local and Metal Workers, Bedaux system, Federation News, Cartledge vs Jopling, Rookes vs Barnard,London weighting, employment for disabled soldiers, employment of women and young people in factories, unskilled labourers, regional development, Ministry of Health, Ministry of National Insurance, union membership and industrial disputes, 1916-1974; Press cuttings regarding Northern Carpets Trade Union, Power Loom Carpet Weavers' and Textile Workers Union, 1983-1987; Typescripts of 'A History of the GFTU’, and 'A Study of the prospects for economic development in North East Lancashire', 1959.

Various newspapers and journals covering developments and activities during the General strike, including copies of The British Gazette, The British Worker, the Morning Post, the Evening News, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily News, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Herald, the Camberwell Borough Advertiser News Bulletin, the Daily Sketch, the Daily Graphic, the Evening Standard and many other local and national publications, 1926.

The collection includes letters to, from and about women engaged in activities in the general women's movement and public life arranged in chronological order. Correspondents include Frances Elizabeth King to Mr CN Warren (on schools and poor relief); the Duchess of Clarence to Miss Lloyd, c. 1825 (acceptance of patron role), Mary Anning to Sir Astley Cooper, 1830 (safe arrival of dinosaur skeleton), Mary Howitt to Mary Carpenter, 1847 (ragged schools report, poem); Mary Linwood to Mrs Barnaby, 1841 (marriage congratulations); Mr JG Marshall to unknown, 1851 (distressed female shop-workers); League of Universal Brotherhood to Mary Carpenter, 1848 (refusal of Sunday School publication material); Lady Leigh to Mary Carpenter, 1855 (girls reformatory scheme); Mary Carpenter, 1857 (on regional reformatories) and 1872 (to Prof Fawcett requesting interview); Emily Faithfull, to Mrs Newnham, c. 1860 (on publications of letters and poems) to Miss Bethell, 1862 (on women printers), c. 1869 (on photographic session), 1871 (on patterns for the Victoria Press and procedure for submission to the 'Englishwoman's Review'), to the Duke of Argyll, 1871 (on Training Institution vice-presidency), to Mr Baynham, 1880 and 1884 (on visits to Glasgow), to Pritchard, 1887; Lady Strangford to unknown recipient, 1887 (request copy of paper); Barbara Leigh Bodichon, to Lord Shaftsbury and to unnamed woman, 1862 (on the Female Middle Class Emigration Society); Lord Shaftesbury to Barbara Leigh Bodichon, 1862 (donation to Female Middle Class Emigration Society); Maria Rye to Barbara Leigh Bodichon, 1862 and 1865 (on the work of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society); Maria Rye to Miss Paget, c.1868 (on child emigrants to Canada); Maria Rye to Miss Buss, 1883 (on interview acceptance); Mr John Knapp to Maria Rye, 1862 (sale of her stationer's business); Ellice Hopkins to Elihu Burritt, c. 1863 (thanks); Helen Taylor to Barbara Leigh Bodichon, 1865 (on published paper) and 1869 (on interrelationship of all aspects of women's movement); John Stuart Mill to Mary Carpenter, 1867 (London prison conditions); Frances Power Cobbe to Mrs Fawcett (1870: women's property taxation; 1895: Matrimonial Clauses Act); Florence Nightingale, 1868 (to Anne Clough: nursing and teaching as arts; to Mary Carpenter: nursing books for journey to India and review by FN); Sir Leopold McClintock to Mary Carpenter, 1869 (thanks for pamphlet); Baroness Burdett-Coutts, (1869: to Mary Carpenter, letter on value of animal life; 1886: to Octavia Hill inviting her to meeting); Duke of Argyll to Mary Carpenter, 1869 (thanks for report); Louisa Hubbard to Miss Ridley, 1 letter, 1870 (request for information); Annie McPherson, 1870 (Bible texts with signature); Sir Edward Clarke to Mr James Hain Friswell, 1870 (Matrimonial Women's Property Act); Sir Alexander Grant to Mrs Blyth, 1870 (Patron of Society for Promoting the Employment of Women); Miss Winkworth to Miss Warren, 1870 (Victoria Press); Louisa Gann to Miss Ridley, 1872 (offer of help from former, reply from latter); Joanna Chandler to Miss Ridley, 1874 (entitlement to recommendations); Dr Elizabeth Blackwell, 10 letters (1875: to George Eliot forwarding Bodichon letter and on legal case; 1877: to Barbara Leigh Bodichon on book on relations of the sexes; 1880 five letters: to Bodichon on Poor Law Guardian elections, repeal work, workhouses, legal injustices to women and their future, etc; 1886: 3 letters to Bodichon on Liberal policy, the National Vigilance Association and pamphlet 'Purchase of Women'); Agnes Ward to Miss Ridley, 1875 (Holloway College); Duke of Westminster to Octavia Hill, 1875 (insertion of Hill's clause in the Artisans' Dwellings Act Bill); Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Mrs Edbury, 1875 (requests Edbury resigns from Married Women's Property Committee); James Stuart to Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1875; Henrietta Barnett to Miss Ridley, 1876 (Little Girl Pauper Committee); Alice Westlake to Miss Ridley, 1876 (thanks); Ursula M Bright to unnamed, 1878 (request sign declaration against war); Rev. Selwyn Image to Miss Garrett, 1879 (notice of visit); Mary Hyett Bunting to Miss Ridley, 1880 (apologies); Emma Paterson to Ernest Hart, 1881 (rescue work); Lady Strangford to Emily Faithfull, 1882 (LS's Red Cross Decoration); Daniel Cooper to unknown, 1882 (Rescue Society work); Earl of Dalhousie to editor, 1883 (article on marriage to deceased wife's sister); Edmund Yates to Emily Faithfull, 1884 ('World' article); Lady Brabazon to Mrs Stirling, 1885 (trip to United States of America); May H Steer to Miss Ridley, 1885 (thanks for donation to rescue work); William Walsham How to Octavia Hill, 1885 (volunteer placement); Mr L Ormiston Chant to Miss Ridley, 1886 (meeting of MABZS); Lord Ripon to Emily Faithfull, 1886 (meeting of London Colonial Emigration Society); Lord Derby: 1886 to Emily Faithfull (on a donation), 1891: to Millicent Garrett Fawcett (on women's working conditions); inquiry regarding Emily Faithfull, 1886; Lord Brabazon to Emily Faithfull, 1886 (role in Society of the National Association for Promoting State Directed Colonisation); John Morley to Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1888 (pantomime children); Princess Victoria of Battenburg to Octavia Hill, 1888 (care of illegitimate children); Octavia Hill, 1874 (to unknown man, on local elections candidate), 1888 (to Miss Sunderland on holidays), 1888 (to Archdeacon Farrar on park for the poor); Elizabeth Wordsworth to Mr Lock, 1890; Countess Aberdeen to Mr Miles, 1890 (permission to print stories); Miss EP Phipson to Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1891 (mill workers petition); Lester Drummond to Mrs Bidder 1893 (legal status of women re municipal franchise); Elizabeth Wordsworth to Miss Donne, 1893; Lady Dufferin Ava to Miss TF de la Forse (London nursing); Walter McLaren to Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1895 (Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act); Walter McLaren's Notice of a Motion on the Matrimonial Causes Act 1867 and copy of Bill; Ellen Pinsent to Miss Hughes, 1896 (NSPCC committee); Eleanor Marx to unnamed, 1896 (invitation to Subcommittee of International Socialist Workers and Trade Union Congress); a notice of a Christmas sale of furniture by Agnes and Rhoda Garrett.

The Female Middle Class Emigration Society (1862-1908) was founded in 1862. The population explosion in England during the first half of the nineteenth century led government policy to encourage large scale emigration, while simultaneous concerns over the number of 'superfluous', unmarried women led to projects to stimulate female emigration. At the Social Sciences conference of 1860, Bessie Parkes advocated emigration as a solution to the population. This was also the belief and advice of Miss Maria S Rye after her experiences in the Society for Promoting Employment of Women, when she was deluged with applicants for a limited number of posts. She herself helped twenty-two women emigrate before attending the 1861 Social Sciences conference, when she appealed for help in establishing a new society to these ends. The Female Middle Class Emigration Society (FMCES) was therefore founded in May 1862 at 12 Portugal Street by a group which included Maria Rye, Jane E. Lewin, Emily Faithfull and Elizabeth (Bessie) Rayner Parkes, with the fund-raising assistance of Barbara Bodichon and with Lord Shaftsbury as its first president. Its stated aims were to assist middle class women who did not benefit from the government sponsorship for which working class women were eligible. Financed by public subscription and private donation, the society aimed to provide interest-free loans to enable educated women to emigrate. In addition, it established contacts at both departure and arrival points (mainly colonial ports). The first party, which included Maria Rye, was sent out to New Zealand in the autumn of 1862. At this point, Jane Lewin took over as Secretary, running the organisation from Sep 1862. Difficulties arose when it became clear that employers wanted working class domestics rather than middle-class governess and Rye, on her return in 1865, left to work with the emigrating working class with a particular interest in children's emigration. Lewin continued to concentrate on recruiting educators. In 1872, a further appeal for financial help was issued as the restricted funds which the society had at its disposal were limiting the number of emigrants being sent abroad. Lewin retired as secretary in 1881 to be replaced by Miss Strongitharm. The Female Middle Class Emigration Society was never a wealthy organisation and from 1884 to 1886 the funds were administered by the Colonial Emigration Society (CES) under Miss Julia Blake, its Secretary. The FMES was officially absorbed into the CES in 1886. In 1892 arrangements were made for the United British Women's Emigration Association to administer the loan fund. In 1908 Miss Lewin retired, and the Female Middle Class Emigration Society's later history is bound up with the British Women's Emigration Association.

Telegram from George V of Sandringham, [Norfolk] to [Hardinge Stanley Giffard], Earl of Halsbury, 25 Jan 1920. Offering congratulations on the 70th anniversary of Halsbury being called to the Bar.

Letter from Henry George of 327 East 19th Street, New York to Swan Sonnenschein and Co, 16 Sep 1891. Relating to the publication of his The Condition of Labor: an Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII.

Autograph, with signature.